One of the reasons affiliate marketing is so popular, is that it’s easy and quick to get started. With no money or time spend on product creation, it is the best way to test a market, even if you plan on creating your own product in the future.

Another benefit of affiliate marketing is that you will not have to hire any customer support staff or deal with product returns and refund issues. Your job is to promote the product to hungry buyers and earn commissions for doing so.

But beware: Your affiliate cash can disappear quicker than snow in June if you don’t protect your commissions. Here are the top three ways to start banking more affiliate cash as soon as today:

1. Stop using direct affiliate links.

You may have read about link cloaking before. This is a way of hiding your link, by using a redirect script for example. It assures that people cannot replace your affiliate link with theirs and buyers can’t remove your affiliate link from the URL.

Another reason you may not have thought about for using a redirect link is that if a vendor stops selling the product you’ve been promoting for months you end up with hundreds of dead links in all your articles, e-books, blog posts, etc.

With a redirect link you now have the option of pointing it to a similar product from another vendor. With just two minutes of work you can possibly save thousand of dollars in commissions that would have otherwise been lost.

2. Look for these common sales leaks.

If you aren’t careful, you may find that the product vendor is the biggest thief of your affiliate commission.

You want to look out for some of these:

* The product sales page should not have Google AdSense ads on it. You end up with all the work of sending traffic to the page, and the owner ends up with the AdSense profits, while nobody is buying the product you are trying to promote. Avoid these sites!

* Alternative payment options are another sneaky way some product vendors reach into your pocket. For example, if the vendor uses Clickbank for affiliate tracking, then obviously you won’t get a penny if the vendor encourages customers to call their orders in.

* A third way you might get cheated is when the buyer needs to contact customer service with questions about the product, and the service rep ends up sending the buyer to a different sales page. Once again, you won’t get the commission you deserve!

3. Learn about what methods the vendor might use to avoid paying you.

Here’s the third tip: Before signing up as an affiliate, make sure you read the Terms of Service (TOS) and Affiliate Agreement. You may find that the vendor imposes very large payment thresholds to legally keep your money until you have reached the threshold! Some vendors actually charge fees if you asked to get paid via check, leaving you with less of a commission.

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